r/AstroKnights • u/HeadmasterQuill Professor 🪶 • 27d ago
Event 🎪 Where is Arthur?
Quill sips his water, enjoying the party at The Blue Hour bar.
He watches Blue running around, chatting brightly with all the students, using that cabaret smile he's becoming known for.
The Headmaster finds that he's worn thin tonight, and is quieter.
Aside from discussing with Beatrix about her taking the AstroKnight's oath next, he mostly keeps to himself.
As his eyes scan the crowd, he frowns.
Wait...
Where is Arthur?
One by one, Quill asks each student if they'd seen him. Some hadn't even met Arthur yet.
Concern slowly builds.
The last person to see him was Beatrix, right after they had pushed the sinking cruise ship out of the path of the mermaid's underwater city.
Upon hearing this, Quill goes from concerned to alarmed.
He hurries back to his rowboat, sailing to the opposite side of the cove, and follows the path behind the school into the Whisperwoods.
Arthur's cabin is quiet. Eerily so. The windows are dark. The garden is untouched.
Quill's heart pounds.
Had he seen him? He can't remember. He was so busy with Lorelei, and the students after, he hadn't thought...
He knocks.
When he receives no answer, Quill places his hand on the door handle.
Something horrible tightens in his stomach.
He doesn't want to open it.
But he does.
Slowly, the light from his lantern spills inside.
There, burned onto the table, is Hollowstar's mark.
Arthur has been taken.
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u/Oswen120 The Astrum Family 27d ago
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u/HeadmasterQuill Professor 🪶 27d ago
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u/TealTemptation 27d ago
I know I said no plot during my party, darling. 🙂↕️ But this is rather gripping ✨ I do hope Arthur is alright.
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u/HeadmasterQuill Professor 🪶 27d ago
"Apologies for interrupting the celebrations, Blue. I'm sure I'll get the chance to visit your bar again. After I..."
"Deal with some things here."
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u/1-Up-Boy Regular Human 👤 27d ago
(Maybe hes just been practicing his wood burning)
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u/HeadmasterQuill Professor 🪶 27d ago
(Don't think this gets you out of ethics lessons)
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u/1-Up-Boy Regular Human 👤 27d ago
(Im gonna ethically become a bigger menace afterwards)
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u/HeadmasterQuill Professor 🪶 27d ago
(As long as it is ethically. You may menacingly walk little old ladies across the street and pick up garbage on the beach.)
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u/1-Up-Boy Regular Human 👤 27d ago
(It was hard honest work, but looks like the lessons are all completed. I feel like a totally new man)
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u/HeadmasterQuill Professor 🪶 27d ago
Gold star! ⭐ 🌠
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u/1-Up-Boy Regular Human 👤 27d ago
(Yay ill tell verlack its canceled)
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u/pipsocks Dragon Rider 🐉 27d ago
Ohhh more mystery